Heavy rains lash parts of UP

Rain and thundershowers occurred at most places with extremely heavy rains at isolated places in Uttar Pradesh, the meteorological department said on Wednesday.

Heavy to very heavy rainfall occurred at few places over the state with southwest monsoon remaining active over west Uttar Pradesh and vigorous over the eastern part of the state.

Basta received extremely heavy rainfall at over 240 mm. Ayodhya and Mauha received very heavy rainfall at 220 mm each, followed by Bansi, Birdghat, Kakarahi, Harriya (170 mm each); Banda (150 mm); Ramnagar (140 mm); Fatehpur, Gorakhpur and Hata (130 mm each).

Heavy rainfall occurred at Kakardariyaghat, Maharajganj, Haidergarh, Binga (90 mm each). Turtipur, Pharenda, Saleempur received 80 of rainfall each, while Elginbridge, Sultanpur, Kaserganj, Attra, Mirzapur, Baberu Zamna Nagar received 70 mm of rainfall each.

The temperature dropped significantly in Lucknow and many divisions of the state. Etawah recorded the highest maximum temperature at 34 degrees Celsius.

The Met department has warned that very heavy to extremely heavy rain are very likely to occur at isolated places. It has forecast thundershowers at most places over eastern part of the state and at isolated places over western region.